Republican Party of France

The Republican Party (PR) was a conservative-liberal political party in France that was active from 1977 to 1997. The party replaced the Independent Republicans, and it was created by Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The party was conservative in domestic, social, and economic policies, pro-NATO, and pro-European Union. In 1978, the PR allied with centrist groups to form the Union for French Democracy, but the PR gravitated away from its founder after Giscard d'Estaing lost the 1961 election. In 1997, it was replaced by Liberal Democracy.